USA / NBC / x30m-e /
1970 - 76 (30 March 70 - 31 December 76)
Creator:
Robert
Cenedell / Executive Producers: Lyle B.
Hill, Sid Sirulnick / Producer: Sid Sirulnick
/ Theme Music: Charles Paul / Announcer: Bill
Woolf / Costume: Julia Sze, Lee Carlton
Music:
Albert Elms
Somerset,
a 1970's US daytime soap was a spin off from
Another World, indeed it was originally known as
Another World-Somerset (it even shared the theme
music with that show). The early shows initially
concerned the lives of four characters from
Another World - Missy Matthews, Lahome Vane
Lucas, Ricky Matthews and Sam Lucas living in
the town of Somerset where Sam Lucas was a
lawyer working in partnership with Ben Grant.
Pretty Quickly though the format of the show
changed to a mystery/crime theme with murders
and criminal activity going on ( even though
Somerset had only 25,000 people living in it it
seems they were all crooked). During the
first season, not only did Somerset use Another
World's music and announcer, it used the same
"interlocking rings" visual.
Cast
IMPORTANT
CHARACTERS INCLUDE:-
MARC ALAIMO as
Virgil Paris (1973) / BIBI BESCH as Eve Lawrence
(1973-76) / DOUG CHAPIN as Tony Cooper (1970-71)
/ JORDAN CHANEY as Sam Lucas (1970-73) / RALPH
CLANTON as Jasper Delaney(1970-71) / NICOLAS
COSTER as Robert Delaney (1970-72) / JOEL
CROTHERS as Julian Cannell (1972-76) / DORTHA
DUCKWORTH as Rowena Standish (1972-73) / TED
DANSON as Tom Conway (1974-76) / HELEN FUNAI as
Lai Ling / LEN GOCHMAN as Peter Delaney
(1970-72) /
HARRIET HALL as Andrew Moore
(1972-74) / GEORGANN JOHNSON as Ellen Grant / ED
KEMMER as Ben Grant (1970-74) / RON MARTIN as
David Grant (1970-74) / WALTER MATTHEWS as
Gerald Davis (1970-71) / JAMESON PARKER as Dale
Robinson(1975-76) / NANCY PINKERTON as Karen
MacMillan (1970) / MELINDA PLANK as Danny
Catsworth (1970) / CAROL ROUX as Missy Palmer
Matthews (1970) / FRED J SCOLLAY as Harry Wilson
(1970-71) / RICHARD SHOBERG as Mitch Farmer
(1971-72) / PAUL SPARER as Rex Cooper / DOROTHY
STINNETTE as Laura Delaney Cooper (1970-73) /
PAMELA TOLL as Pammy Davis (1970-71) / ANN
WEDGEWORTH as India Bishop Delaney Hillman
(170-72) / SIGOURNEY WEAVER as Avis Ryan (1976)
/ JOBETH WILLIAMS as Carrie Wheeler (1975-76) /
EDWARD WINTER as Mr Whittington (1970)
